Rooftop Gardens

Rooftop Garden: Sweet Potatoes

Richard Temtchine | Posted 11.29.2011

Read More: Food News, Rooftop Farms, Rooftop Gardens, Rooftop Gardening, Ps 20 Farms, Gardening, Healty Food, Green Rooftops, Food News
Richard Temtchine

Sweet potatoes. Healthy food. Good for parents and children alike. Easy to cook, inexpensive, taste delicious and offers all the nutritional value you and your children can and will benefit from...

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Rooftop Gardening: Empowering Children With Knowledge

Richard Temtchine | Posted 11.21.2011

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Richard Temtchine

Parents need to be seriously concerned because the subject at hand is their children's health. They must be knowledgeable about what they feed their young ones. As responsible adults entrusted with the well-being of their off-springs they must be more than vigilant.

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The Rooftop Garden Project

Richard Temtchine | Posted 11.13.2011

Read More: Rooftop Gardens, Organic Gardening, Gardening, Obesity, Childhood Obesity, Food News
Richard Temtchine

When school rooftops in all five boroughs go green, they become a classroom in which the skills of future economic independence and entrepreneurship are also taught.

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WATCH: Rooftop To Table Gardens In New York City

Posted 06.13.2011

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A new short film by Petrina TV puts some faces to the rooftop farming movement in New York City. Patrick Connolly of Bobo in Greenwich Village expl...

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New York City's Biggest Rooftop Farm

Jake Rosenwasser | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Local Food, Organic Food, Queens, Urban Farming, The Brooklyn Grange, Rooftop Farms, Rooftop Gardens, Green Living, Locavore, Green Roofs, New York News
Jake Rosenwasser

This farm in the middle of urban Queens isn't just about ecological idealism. Here, one city gardener is trying to merge environmental sustainability with fiscal sustainability.

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Summer Growing

Dave Snyder | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Rain, Organic Farming, Organic Food, Sustainable Food, Summer, Urban Farming, Farmers Markets, Sustainable Agriculture, Sustainability, Rooftop Gardens, Sustainable Farming, Organic Eating, Harvesting, Chicago News
Dave Snyder

Farmers will tell you there's a weird quiet time in the summer. Between the manic planting schedule of the spring and the busy harvest time lies a pacific period in the early summer.

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Greensburg, Kansas: From Green-town to Clean-town

Michael DeJong | Posted 05.25.2011

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Michael DeJong

After a tornado destroyed 95% of the town, Greensburg, Kansas reinvented itself by striving to become the greenest community imaginable.

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Uncommon Ground Rooftop Farm Update: Week 4

Dave Snyder | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Bees, Cafe, Dining Out, Dining, Urban Gardening, Urban Farming, Farmers Markets, Rooftop Gardens, Gardening, Chicago News
Dave Snyder

To follow-up on the bee drama from last week, there's good news and bad news. The bad news is that, after all that swarm wrangling we either lost or injured the queen.

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The Bee Swarm

Dave Snyder | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Organic Farming, Chicago Rooftop Farm, Urban Beekeeping, Beekeeping, Restaurants, Urban Farming, Bee Stings, Bee-Hive, Queen Bees, Rooftop Gardens, ABC News, Chicago News
Dave Snyder

The cold, dizzly weather Chicago's been having lulled Liam and I into a false sense of security, as we hadn't seen much action from the hives. Today's swarm was a rude awakening.

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Artlog's Top Art & Culture Picks

Artlog | Posted 05.25.2011

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Artlog

For those of you who have yet to show off your legs this summer, perhaps you can learn a lesson or two from Albrecht Dürer's idea of beauty.

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Rooftop Gardens: Send Us Photos Of Your Favorite Green Space

Huffington Post | Katherine Goldstein | Posted 05.25.2011

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Here at HuffPost Green we loved checking out amazing green roof spaces from around the world, and we figured that you, dear readers, likely have some ...

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The High Line: Think, Reuse, Grow Up

Anjuli Ayer | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: New York Public Spaces, New York, High Line, New York Gardens, New York Parks, Rooftop Gardens, Gardening, Herbs, Gardens, New York News
Anjuli Ayer

When the High Line opened to the public a day early on June 8th, I didn't know how excited I was until I started to climb its steps.

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